Applicants will be admitted to this retreat by lottery. All applications with deposits that have been received by August 1, 2012 will be entered into a lottery to be held on August 2. You will be notified during the following week if you have been admitted or are on the wait-list. Subsequent applications will be added to the wait-list.

Heather Martin has practiced different forms of meditation for over thirty years. Her early dharma practice was under the guidance of S. N. Goenka, and has since been influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of Theravada – just recently while practicing in Burma with Ven. U Tejaniya. She was trained by Jack Kornfield, and teaches at Spirit Rock, in south western Canada and in the Pacific Northwest. She worked for 20 years as a midwife, and lives on Salt Spring Island, off the west coast of British Columbia.